A woman in an adjoining office to ours learned this past weekend that a nephew she is very close to was killed in combat. It’s been a somber day here, one woman who has a son in Iraq was moved to tears and worrying.
I don’t know the woman who lost her nephew, but a couple co-workers were talking about it and said that he had been stationed in Africa.
“Why are we in Africa, anyway?”
“I don’t know.”
“It’s all so sad.”
And that’s when I turned around and said:
“You know what’s really sad? That he died, and we don’t even know why he was there.”
Apparently my comment struck home, and when one of the co-workers called to express her condolences she asked why he had been stationed there.
The answer? “Unspecified Terrorist Threat.”